The Speed-O-Matic is an instant-picture camera, manufactured in 1948 by the Speed-O-Matic Corporation of Boston.
The process required to make pictures with this camera was actually anything but speedy. You had to load the film pack into the camera, shoot the first picture, then remove the film pack, flip it, reload it, and shoot the second picture. At this point, you'd remove the film pack, plug it into a development tank (provided in the camera kit), and transfer the exposed paper sheets into the tank via a sliding metal injector. Next, you fill the tank with "solution 1", wait two minutes, empty the solution, and rinse the tank with cold water. Fill with solution 2, wait one minute, rinse. Fill with solution 3, wait 45 seconds, rinse. Fill with solution 4, wait another minute, and rinse once again.
This was required every two shots!
It probably seemed fast though, because of the cool Speed-O-Matic font on the front!
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